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Hajisoteriou, Christina; Angelides, Panayiotis – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
The main goal of this study is to examine the barriers and prospects of intercultural education in Cypriot schools of the southern part of the island with regard to not only learning the language of the reception country, but also the language of origin. Taking this as the point of departure, this study aims to explore the content and goals of…
Descriptors: Barriers, Multicultural Education, Immigrants, Acculturation
Higgins, Robert M.; Brady, Alan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
An initiative termed "Global 30 Project for Establishing Core Universities for Internationalization" (hereafter G30) in Japan aims for the recruitment of an additional 300,000 international students by 2020 to study in Japan in English, and also aims to send many more Japanese university students overseas than are now studying outside…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Private Colleges, Ethnography, Interviews
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Skerrett, Delaney Michael – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper seeks to situate Estonian language use and policy within the emerging field of critical language policy and planning (CLPP) by investigating the discourses that frame linguistic behaviour. This done by way of an analysis of a series of interviews carried out with key actors in language policy in Estonia. The discourses framing language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Educational Change, High Schools
Nguyen, Hoa Thi Mai; Bui, Thuy – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Scholars concerned with language policies (LPs) argue that globalization has brought about various political, socio-economic, and linguistic shifts that increasingly impact on teacher agency (e.g., Zhao & Baldauf, 2012). Recently, the LP literature has increasingly acknowledged the agentive role of teachers as a critical factor in implementing…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Language Planning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Machida, Tomohisa; Walsh, Daniel J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
This case study examines the implementation of "Foreign Language Activities" (English language education), which officially began in Japanese elementary schools in 2011. Subjects in this study included 37 Japanese classroom teachers (20 males and 17 females) in four elementary schools in Tokyo. The Teacher Foreign Language Anxiety Scale…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, English (Second Language), Educational Change
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Chen, Ai-hua – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
It has been almost a decade since the introduction of the primary EFL education policy in Taiwan. Many controversial issues and problems have emerged from this implementation that continue to constitute great challenges for the Taiwanese government in reforming current policies and practices related to English language teaching at the primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, English (Second Language), Parent Attitudes